Naupada Junction railway station (station code:NWP), located in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, serves Naupada in Srikakulam district.

It is a junction station with a branch line to Gunupur in Rayagada district of Odisha which was built by Maharaja of Paralakhemundi.Former it was known as Parlakimedi Light Railway.

During the period 1893 to 1896, 1,287 km (800 mi) of railway tracks covering the entire coastal stretch from Cuttack to Vijayawada, was built and opened to traffic by East Coast State Railway.

[1][2]Bengal Nagpur Railway's line to Cuttack was opened on 1 January 1899.

[3] The 514 km (319 mi)-long northern portion of the East Coast line to Cuttack, including the branch line to Puri, was taken over by Bengal Nagpur Railway in 1902.